Esoteric Survey

Inco Not a banner weekend on the junk front.

Jens Risom, La Gardo Tackett and an iron and wood shelf. 

More iron Smalls

Milo Baughman for Murray "Fibre" chair and a table he designed for Arch Gordon Kinetic sculpture by Russell Secrest Carl Aubock Giorgio Belloli chair Alvar Aalto Chair 69 More iron!

On May 08, 2104, this "Rod Iron & Leather Side Chair. Wood Arms California" was sold at Michaan's auction .  The estimate was $1,000 to $1,200 and it  sold for $2,500. Of course all "unknown" iron furniture comes from California.  Well, it turns out "The Putney Chair" was from The Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education in Putney, Vermont Source:  FleaBay

Isamu Noguchi, laced up Malcolm Leland / Architectural Pottery Smalls

Iron

Iron More iron Clay

Isamu Kenmochi Creative Playthings Soleri Bells Photo: Kristen Gallerneaux More iron

 I took a drive up Pacific Coast Highway. Winters in Southern California are brutal . Redondo Beach Yes, a gas station and car wash.  They should hide more of the m like th at . I f I were writing the zo ning codes, it would be required. Manhattan Beach Chase. It was built in 1964 as a Coast Federal Bank.  This car totally ruined my shot. He was in there too, for a while. Who hangs out in a bank parking lot on a Sunday?  This photo blocking jerk. South Bay Bank by Craig Ellwood. More here . I just had to stop. 

Gross Wood Hundreds of different designs.  I guess they had more time on their hands in the 50s.

Luther Conover dowel leg table and a Barba Corsini iron table designed in 1955 for a space within Gaudi's Pedrera building.  Paul Volckening Warren Mackenzie, Dansk, wood

Tray Table by Paul Palmer for Bill Brewer Associates In case you didn't believe me. I live for stuff like this. I also realize that I put the stand upside down in these pictures.   Paul Palmer for Frank Bros. Not the most exciting design, but cut him some slack, it was 1949.  Palmer studied at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco. (He would later teach Furniture Design there.) He worked with designer Frances Mihailoff in San Francisco and designed furniture, interiors and store displays for Frank Bros. in Long Beach, CA.

Poul Kjaerholm, Denmark Grete Jalk, Denmark Carl Aubock, Austria Carl Aubock, Austria I.A.I. Design Division, Japan Isamu Kenmochi, Japan Renato Angeli, Ico Parisi and Gianni Saibene, Italy Dennis Lennon, UK Ettore Sottsass , Italy